WO2019066407A1 - Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control signal in wireless communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for fusing a 5G communication system to support a higher data rate than a 4G system with IoT technology; and a system thereof. The present disclosure can be applied to 5G communication technology and IoT related technology based intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.). According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide an improved method for transmitting and receiving a control channel. The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a base station, comprising the steps of: transmitting first control area setting information containing first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) setting information for a first control area; transmitting second control area setting information containing second DMRS setting information for a second control area; identifying a third control area where the first control area overlaps with the second control area; and transmitting a DMRS on the basis of the first DMRS configuration information in the first control area including the third control area, a base station which performs the same, a terminal which communicates with the base station, and a method for operating the terminal.

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Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system.

Efforts are underway to develop an improved 5G or pre-5G communication system to meet the growing demand for wireless data traffic after commercialization of the 4G communication system. For this reason, a 5G communication system or a pre-5G communication system is referred to as a 4G network (Beyond 4G Network) communication system or a post-LTE system (Post LTE) system. To achieve a high data rate, 5G communication systems are being considered for implementation in very high frequency (mmWave) bands (e.g., 60 gigahertz (60GHz) bands). In order to mitigate the path loss of the radio wave in the very high frequency band and to increase the propagation distance of the radio wave, in the 5G communication system, beamforming, massive MIMO, full-dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO ), Array antennas, analog beam-forming, and large scale antenna technologies are being discussed. In order to improve the network of the system, the 5G communication system has developed an advanced small cell, an advanced small cell, a cloud radio access network (cloud RAN), an ultra-dense network, (D2D), a wireless backhaul, a moving network, cooperative communication, Coordinated Multi-Points (CoMP), and interference cancellation Have been developed. In addition, in the 5G system, the Advanced Coding Modulation (ACM) scheme, Hybrid FSK and QAM Modulation (FQAM) and Sliding Window Superposition Coding (SWSC), the advanced connection technology, Filter Bank Multi Carrier (FBMC) (non-orthogonal multiple access), and SCMA (sparse code multiple access).

On the other hand, the Internet is evolving into an Internet of Things (IoT) network in which information is exchanged between distributed components such as objects in a human-centered connection network where humans generate and consume information. IoE (Internet of Everything) technology, which combines IoT technology with big data processing technology through connection with cloud servers, is also emerging. In order to implement IoT, technology elements such as sensing technology, wired / wireless communication, network infrastructure, service interface technology, and security technology are required. In recent years, sensor network for connecting objects, Machine to Machine , M2M), and MTC (Machine Type Communication). In the IoT environment, an intelligent IT (Internet Technology) service can be provided that collects and analyzes data generated from connected objects to create new value in human life. IoT is a field of smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, smart grid, health care, smart home appliance, and advanced medical service through fusion of existing information technology . ≪ / RTI >

Accordingly, various attempts have been made to apply the 5G communication system to the IoT network. For example, technologies such as sensor network, machine to machine (M2M), and machine type communication (MTC) are implemented by techniques such as beamforming, MIMO, and array antennas, which are 5G communication technologies will be. The application of the cloud RAN as the big data processing technology described above is an example of the convergence of 5G technology and IoT technology.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved control channel transmission / reception method. The present invention also provides an improved downlink control channel transmission / reception method.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of operating a base station, comprising: transmitting first control area setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for a first control area; The method comprising the steps of: transmitting second control area setting information including second DMRS setting information for the first control area; checking a third control area where the first control area overlaps with the second control area; And transmitting the DMRS based on the first DMRS configuration information in the first control zone.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of operating a terminal, the method comprising: receiving first control area setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for a first control area from a base station; Receiving second control area setting information including second DMRS setting information for a second control area from the base station, receiving second control area setting information including second DMRS setting information for the second control area from the base station based on the first control area setting information and the second control area setting information, And receiving a DMRS based on the first DMRS setting information in a first control region including the third control region, based on the first control region and the second control region overlapping the second control region can do.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a base station transmits first control area setting information including a transmission / reception unit for transmitting and receiving signals and first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for a first control area And transmits second control area setting information including second DMRS setting information for the second control area, identifies a third control area where the first control area overlaps with the second control area, And a controller for controlling the DMRS to be transmitted based on the first DMRS setting information in the first control region including the control region.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, in a terminal, a transmission / reception unit for transmitting and receiving signals and first control region setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for a first control region Receiving second control area setting information including second DMRS setting information for a second control area from the base station, and receiving, based on the first control area setting information and the second control area setting information, A control unit for confirming a third control area where the first control area overlaps with the second control area and controlling the DMRS to be received based on the first DMRS setting information in a first control area including the third control area It is possible to provide a terminal including the terminal.

The technical objects to be achieved by the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned technical problems, and other technical subjects which are not mentioned are described in the following description, which will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs It will be possible.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an improved control channel transmission / reception method can be provided.

In an environment in which control areas having different types of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) setting information are set to overlap with each other through a transmission / reception method of a downlink control channel according to an embodiment of the present invention, The control channel can be effectively transmitted in time and frequency resources in the area.

1 is a diagram illustrating a basic structure of a time-frequency domain in LTE according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a downlink control channel of LTE according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating transmission resources of a downlink control channel in 5G according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of setting of a control region in 5G according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating a method for transmitting a downlink control channel DMRS in a 5G according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of bandwidth subsetting in 5G according to an embodiment of the present invention.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example according to the first embodiment of the present invention, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a block diagram illustrating the structure of a terminal according to various embodiments of the present invention.

9 is a block diagram illustrating the structure of a base station according to various embodiments of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that, in the drawings, the same components are denoted by the same reference symbols as possible. Further, the detailed description of well-known functions and constructions that may obscure the gist of the present invention will be omitted.

In the following description of the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, descriptions of known techniques that are well known in the art and are not directly related to the present invention will be omitted. This is for the sake of clarity of the present invention without omitting the unnecessary explanation.

For the same reason, some of the components in the drawings are exaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated. Also, the size of each component does not entirely reflect the actual size. In the drawings, the same or corresponding components are denoted by the same reference numerals.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout the specification.

At this point, it will be appreciated that the combinations of blocks and flowchart illustrations in the process flow diagrams may be performed by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be loaded into a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus, so that those instructions, which are executed through a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, Thereby creating means for performing functions. These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory capable of directing a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to implement the functionality in a particular manner so that the computer usable or computer readable memory The instructions stored in the block diagram (s) are also capable of producing manufacturing items containing instruction means for performing the functions described in the flowchart block (s). Computer program instructions may also be stored on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment so that a series of operating steps may be performed on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer- It is also possible for the instructions to perform the processing equipment to provide steps for executing the functions described in the flowchart block (s).

In addition, each block may represent a module, segment, or portion of code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing the specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions mentioned in the blocks may occur out of order. For example, two blocks shown in succession may actually be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be performed in reverse order according to the corresponding function.

Herein, the term " part " used in the present embodiment means a hardware component such as software or an FPGA or an ASIC, and 'part' performs certain roles. However, 'part' is not meant to be limited to software or hardware. &Quot; to " may be configured to reside on an addressable storage medium and may be configured to play one or more processors. Thus, by way of example, 'parts' may refer to components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components and task components, and processes, functions, , Subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. The functions provided within the components and components may be further combined with a smaller number of components and components, or further components and components. In addition, the components and components may be implemented to play back one or more CPUs in a device or a secure multimedia card.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Embodiments of the present invention will be described below as an example of an LTE or LTE-A system, but the embodiments of the present invention can be applied to other communication systems having a similar technical background or channel form. For example, 5G mobile communication technology developed after LTE-A (5G, new radio, NR) could be included. Therefore, the embodiments of the present invention can be applied to other communication systems by a person skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention.

In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. The following terms are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, and these may be changed according to the intention of the user, the operator, or the like. Therefore, the definition should be based on the contents throughout this specification.

For example, 3GPP's High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), LTE (Long Term Evolution or Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)), LTE-Advanced Which provides high-speed and high-quality packet data services such as LTE-A, LTE-Pro, High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) of 3GPP2, Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB), and IEEE 802.16e Communication system.

In the LTE system, an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) scheme is used in a downlink (DL) and a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple (SC-FDMA) scheme is used in an uplink Access) method. The uplink refers to a radio link in which a UE (User Equipment) or an MS (Mobile Station) or a terminal transmits data or a control signal to a base station (eNode B or base station (BS) Means a wireless link that transmits data or control signals to this terminal. In the above multiple access scheme, the data or control information of each user is classified and operated so that the time and frequency resources for transmitting data or control information for each user do not overlap each other, that is, orthogonality is established. do.

As a future communication system after LTE, that is, a 5G communication system (or NR (new radio) communication system) must freely reflect various requirements of users and service providers, Must be supported. The services to be considered for the 5G communication system include enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communication (mMTC), ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC), etc. .

eMBB aims to provide a higher data transfer rate than the data rates supported by traditional LTE, LTE-A or LTE-Pro. For example, in a 5G communication system, an eMBB should be able to provide a peak transmission rate of 20 Gbps in the downlink and a maximum transmission rate of 10 Gbps in the uplink in view of one base station. In addition, the 5G communication system should provide a maximum transmission rate and at the same time provide an increased user perceived data rate of the terminal. In order to meet these requirements, various transmission and reception technologies are required to be improved including a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transmission technique. In addition, while 5G communication systems transmit signals using the transmission bandwidth of up to 20MHz in the 2GHz band used by the current LTE, the 5G communication system requires a frequency bandwidth wider than 20MHz in the frequency band of 3 to 6GHz or more than 6GHz, The data transmission speed can be satisfied.

At the same time, mMTC is considered to support application services such as Internet of Thing (IoT) in 5G communication systems. In order to efficiently provide Internet of things, mMTC is required to support connection of large terminals in a cell, enhancement of terminal coverage, improved battery time, and cost reduction of terminals. Object The Internet must be able to support a large number of terminals (for example, 1,000,000 terminals / km2) in a cell because it is attached to various sensors and various devices and provides communication functions. In addition, terminals supporting mMTC are more likely to be located in shaded areas that can not be covered by a cell, such as a building underground, due to the nature of the service, thus requiring a wider coverage than other services provided by the 5G communication system. Terminals supporting mMTC should be configured as inexpensive terminals and battery life time is required to be very long like 10 ~ 15 years because it is difficult to change the terminal battery frequently.

Finally, in the case of URLLC, it is a cellular-based wireless communication service used for mission-critical purposes. For example, remote control for a robot or a machine, industrial automation, unmanaged aerial vehicle, remote health care, emergency situation, Services used for emergency alert and the like can be considered. Therefore, the communication provided by URLLC should provide very low latency and very high reliability. For example, a service that supports URLLC must meet Air interface latency less than 0.5 milliseconds (msec) and at the same time have a packet error rate requirement of less than 10-5 . Therefore, for a service that supports URLLC, the 5G system must provide a smaller Transmit Time Interval (TTI) than other services, and at the same time, it is necessary to allocate a wide resource in the frequency band in order to secure the reliability of the communication link Are required.

5G services, eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC, can be multiplexed and transmitted in one system. In this case, different transmission / reception techniques and transmission / reception parameters may be used between services in order to satisfy different requirements of the respective services.

In the 5G, one of a wideband DMRS (WB-RS) or a narrowband DMRS (NB-RS) may be set as a DMRS for decoding a downlink control channel. At this time, when all or a part of the control area set in the NB-RS overlaps with the control area set in the WB-RS, it is assumed that some DMRS setting is assumed in the overlapped area and decoding of the DL control channel is performed There may be a problem with the In the embodiment of the present invention, a WB-RS assumption, a control region rate matching, and a control region monitoring omission are proposed to solve this problem.

In the 5G, one or a plurality of control areas can be set from the base station to the terminal. The type of search space to be monitored in each control area can be set from the base station to the terminal. That is, the UE can be configured to monitor various types of common search space and UE-specific search space from the BS. Embodiments of the present invention propose various embodiments corresponding to various setting methods for performing control area setting and monitoring for a search space.

Hereinafter, the frame structure of the LTE and LTE-A systems will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a diagram illustrating a basic structure of a time-frequency domain, which is a radio resource region in which a data or a control channel is transmitted in a downlink in a system in LTE according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In Fig. 1, the horizontal axis represents the time domain and the vertical axis represents the frequency domain. The minimum transmission unit in the time domain is an OFDM symbol. Nsymb (101) OFDM symbols constitute one slot 102, and two slots form one subframe 103. The length of the slot is 0.5 ms and the length of the subframe is 1.0 ms. The radio frame 104 is a time domain unit consisting of 10 subframes. The minimum transmission unit in the frequency domain is a subcarrier, and the bandwidth of the total system transmission bandwidth is composed of a total of NBW (105) subcarriers. In a time-frequency domain, a basic unit of a resource can be represented by an OFDM symbol index and a subcarrier index as a resource element 106 (Resource Element, RE). A resource block 107 (Resource Block, RB or Physical Resource Block) is defined as Nsymb (101) consecutive OFDM symbols in the time domain and NRB (108) consecutive subcarriers in the frequency domain. Therefore, one RB 108 is composed of Nsymb x NRB REs 106. [ In general, the minimum transmission unit of data is the RB unit. In the LTE system, Nsymb = 7 and NRB = 12 in general, and NBW and NRB are proportional to the bandwidth of the system transmission band.

Next, the downlink control information (DCI) in the LTE and LTE-A systems will be described in detail.

In the LTE system, the scheduling information for the downlink data or the uplink data is transmitted from the base station to the mobile station through the DCI. The DCI defines various formats and determines whether it is scheduling information for uplink data or scheduling information for downlink data, whether it is a compact DCI having a small size of control information, and spatial multiplexing using multiple antennas Whether DCI is used for power control, and the like. For example, DCI format 1, which is scheduling control information for downlink data, is configured to include at least the following control information.

- Resource allocation type 0/1 flag: Notifies whether the resource allocation method is Type 0 or Type 1. Type 0 allocates resources by resource block group (RBG) by applying bitmap method. In the LTE system, the basic unit of scheduling is an RB (resource block) represented by a time and frequency domain resource, and the RBG is composed of a plurality of RBs and serves as a basic unit of scheduling in the type 0 scheme. Type 1 allows a specific RB to be allocated within the RBG.

- Resource block assignment: Notifies the RB allocated to data transmission. The resources to be represented are determined according to the system bandwidth and the resource allocation method.

- Modulation and coding scheme (MCS): Notifies the modulation scheme used for data transmission and the size of the transport block (TB), which is the data to be transmitted.

- HARQ process number: Notifies the HARQ process number.

- New data indicator: Notifies HARQ initial transmission or retransmission.

- Redundancy version: Notifies redundancy version of HARQ.

Transmit Power Control Command (PUCCH) for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH): Notifies a transmission power control command for the uplink control channel PUCCH.

The DCI is transmitted through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) or an Enhanced PDCCH (EPDCCH) through a channel coding and modulation process.

The DCI message payload is accompanied by a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check), and the CRC is scrambled into a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) corresponding to the identity of the UE. Different RNTIs are used depending on the purpose of the DCI message, e.g., UE-specific data transmission, power control command or random access response. Soon, the RNTI is not explicitly transmitted but is included in the CRC computation and transmitted. Upon receiving the DCI message transmitted on the PDCCH, the UE checks the CRC using the allocated RNTI, and if the CRC check result is correct, the UE can know that the corresponding message is transmitted to the UE.

2 is a diagram illustrating PDCCH 201 and EPDCCH (Enhanced PDCCH) 202, which are downlink physical channels through which DCI of LTE is transmitted according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, the PDCCH 201 is time-multiplexed with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) 203, which is a data transmission channel, and is transmitted over the entire system bandwidth. The area of the PDCCH 201 is represented by the number of OFDM symbols, which is indicated to the UE by a CFI (Control Format Indicator) transmitted through a Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH). PDCCH 201 is allocated to an OFDM symbol located in a front part of a subframe so that the UE can decode the downlink scheduling assignment as soon as possible so that a decoding delay for a DL-SCH (Downlink Shared Channel) There is an advantage that the link transmission delay can be reduced. One PDCCH carries one DCI message and a plurality of UEs can simultaneously be scheduled in the downlink and uplink, so that a plurality of PDCCHs are simultaneously transmitted in each cell. As a reference signal for decoding the PDCCH 201, a CRS 204 (cell specific reference signal) is used. The CRS 204 is transmitted every subframe over the entire band, and scrambling and resource mapping are changed according to the cell ID (Identity). UE-specific beamforming can not be used because the CRS 204 is a reference signal commonly used by all terminals. Therefore, the multi-antenna transmission scheme for the PDCCH of LTE is limited to open loop transmit diversity. The number of ports of the CRS is implicitly known to the UE from the decoding of the PBCH (Physical Broadcast Channel).

The resource allocation of the PDCCH 201 is based on a CCE (Control-Channel Element), and one CCE is composed of 9 resource elements (REGs), that is, a total of 36 resource elements (REs). The number of CCEs required for a particular PDCCH 201 may be one, two, four, or eight, depending on the channel coding rate of the DCI message payload. Thus, different CCE numbers are used to implement the link adaptation of the PDCCH 201. [ The terminal must detect a signal without knowing information about the PDCCH 201. In LTE, a search space representing a set of CCEs for blind decoding is defined. The search space is composed of a plurality of aggregates at the aggregation level (AL) of each CCE, which is not explicitly signaled but implicitly defined by function and subframe number by the UE identity. In each subframe, the UE decodes the PDCCH 201 for all possible candidate candidates that can be generated from the CCEs in the set search space, and transmits the information declared as valid to the UE through the CRC check .

The search space is classified into a UE-specific search space and a common search space. The UEs in a certain group or all the UEs can check the common search space of the PDCCH 201 to receive control information common to cells such as dynamic scheduling and paging messages for system information. For example, the scheduling assignment information of the DL-SCH for transmission of the SIB (System Information Block) -1 including the cell operator information can be received by checking the common search space of the PDCCH 201. [

2, the EPDCCH 202 is frequency multiplexed with the PDSCH 203 and transmitted. The base station can appropriately allocate resources of the EPDCCH 202 and the PDSCH 203 through scheduling, thereby effectively supporting coexistence with data transmission for existing LTE terminals. However, since the EPDCCH 202 is allocated and transmitted over one subframe on the time axis, there is a problem in terms of transmission delay time. A plurality of EPDCCHs 202 constitute one EPDCCH 202 set, and an EPDCCH 202 set is allocated in units of a PRB (Physical Resource Block) pair. The location information for the EPDCCH set is set UE-specific and is signaled via RRC (Radio Resource Control). A maximum of two sets of EPDCCHs 202 may be set for each UE, and one set of EPDCCHs 202 may be multiplexed and set to different UEs at the same time.

The resource allocation of the EPDCCH 202 is based on ECCE (Enhanced CCE), and one ECCE can be composed of four or eight EREGs (Enhanced REG). The number of EREGs per ECCE is equal to the cyclic prefix Frame setting information. One EREG is composed of 9 REs, so there can be 16 EREGs per PRB pair. The EPDCCH transmission scheme is classified into localized / distributed transmission according to the RE mapping scheme of EREG. The aggregation level of the ECCE can be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, which is determined by the CP length, subframe setting, EPDCCH format and transmission mode.

EPDCCH 202 supports only the UE-specific search space. Therefore, a UE desiring to receive a system message must examine the common search space on the existing PDCCH 201.

In the EPDCCH 202, a DMRS (Demodulation Reference Signal) 205 is used as a reference signal for decoding. Thus, precoding for the EPDCCH 202 can be established by the base station and use terminal-specific beamforming. Through the DMRS 205, the UEs can perform decoding on the EPDCCH 202 without knowing what precoding is used. In the EPDCCH 202, the same pattern as the DMRS of the PDSCH 203 is used. However, unlike the PDSCH 203, the DMRS 205 in the EPDCCH 202 can support transmission using up to four antenna ports. The DMRS 205 is transmitted only in the corresponding PRB to which the EPDCCH is transmitted.

The port setting information of the DMRS 205 depends on the EPDCCH 202 transmission scheme. In the case of the localized transmission scheme, the antenna port corresponding to the ECCE to which the EPDCCH 202 is mapped is selected based on the ID of the terminal. If different UEs share the same ECCE, that is, multiuser MIMO (Multiuser MIMO) transmission is used, a DMRS antenna port can be allocated to each UE. Or the DMRS 205 may be shared and transmitted. In this case, the DMRS 205 may be divided into a scrambling sequence that is set to higher layer signaling. In the case of the distributed transmission scheme, up to two antenna ports of the DMRS 205 are supported, and a diversity scheme of a precoder cycling scheme is supported. The DMRS 205 may be shared for all REs transmitted in one PRB pair.

In LTE, the entire PDCCH region is composed of a set of CCEs in a logical region, and a search space is formed of a set of CCEs. The search space is divided into a common search space and a UE-specific search space, and a search space for an LTE PDCCH is defined as follows.

[PDCCH search space]

According to the definition of the search space for the PDCCH described above, the UE-specific search space is implicitly defined by the function by the terminal identity and the subframe number without being explicitly signaled. In other words, since the terminal-specific search space can be changed according to the subframe number, this means that it can be changed over time, and the problem that a specific terminal can not use the search space by other terminals among the terminals Blocking problem). If all the CCEs that it examines are already being used by other UEs that are scheduled in the same subframe, then if no UEs are scheduled in that subframe, this search space changes over time, Such a problem may not occur. For example, even though a part of the terminal-specific search space of terminal # 1 and terminal # 2 overlap in a specific subframe, the terminal-specific search space is changed for each subframe, so the overlap in the next subframe can do.

According to the definition of the search space for the PDCCH described above, in the case of the common search space, a certain group of terminals or all terminals are defined as a set of promised CCE since they must receive the PDCCH. In other words, the common search space does not vary depending on the identity of the terminal, the subframe number, or the like. Although the common search space exists for the transmission of various system messages, it can also be used to transmit control information of individual terminals. Thus, the common search space can be used as a solution to the problem that the UE does not receive the scheduling due to a shortage of available resources in the UE-specific search space.

The search space is a set of candidate control channels made up of CCEs to which the UE should attempt to decode at a given aggregation level. Since there are several aggregation levels that form one bundle with 1, 2, 4, and 8 CCEs, Search space. The number of PDCCH candidates that the UE in the search space defined by the aggregation level in the LTE PDCCH should monitor is defined by the following table.

[Table 1]

According to Table 1, we support aggregation level {1, 2, 4, 8} for UE-specific search space, and {6, 6, 2, 2} candidate PDCCH candidates respectively. For the common search space, we support aggregation level {4, 8}, with {4, 2} PDCCH candidates each. The reason that the common search space supports only the aggregation level {4, 8} is to improve the coverage characteristics because system messages generally have to reach the edge of the cell.

The DCI transmitted to the common search space is defined only for a specific DCI format, such as 0 / 1A / 3 / 3A / 1C, which is used for power control of system messages or terminal groups. The DCI format with spatial multiplexing is not supported within the common search space. The downlink DCI format to be decoded in the UE-specific search space depends on a transmission mode set for the corresponding UE. Since the transmission mode is set through RRC signaling, an accurate sub-frame number is not specified as to whether the setting is effective for the terminal. Therefore, the terminal can be operated so as not to lose communication by always performing decoding on the DCI format 1A regardless of the transmission mode.

A method and a search space for transmitting and receiving downlink control channel and downlink control information in LTE and LTE-A have been described above.

Hereinafter, the downlink control channel in the currently discussed 5G communication system will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a basic unit of time and frequency resources configuring a downlink control channel that can be used in 5G according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the basic unit (REG) of the time and frequency resources constituting the control channel is composed of one OFDM symbol 301 on the time axis and 12 subcarriers 302, that is, 1 RB Consists of. The data channel and the control channel can be time-multiplexed in one subframe by assuming that the basic unit of time axis is one OFDM symbol 301 in constituting the basic unit of the control channel. By placing the control channel ahead of the data channel, the processing time of the user can be reduced and it is easy to satisfy the delay time requirement. By setting the basic unit of the frequency axis of the control channel to 1 RB (302), frequency multiplexing between the control channel and the data channel can be performed more efficiently.

By connecting the REG 303 shown in FIG. 3, it is possible to set control channel regions of various sizes. For example, if a basic unit to which a downlink control channel is allocated in a 5G is a CCE 304, one CCE 304 may be composed of a plurality of REGs 303. For example, if the REG 303 is composed of 12 REs and 1 CCE 304 is composed of 6 REGs 303, 1 CCE 304 may be configured as It means that it can be composed of 72 REs. When a downlink control region is set, the corresponding region may be composed of a plurality of CCEs 304, and a specific downlink control channel is mapped to one or a plurality of CCEs 304 according to an aggregation level (AL) . The CCEs 304 within the control area are numbered and numbered may be assigned according to a logical mapping scheme.

The basic unit of the downlink control channel shown in FIG. 3, that is, the REG 303, may include all the regions to which the DCs are mapped and the DMRS 305, which is a reference signal for decoding the REs. As shown in FIG. 3, three DMRSs 305 can be transmitted in one REG 303.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a control resource set (CORESET) in which a downlink control channel is transmitted in a 5G wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 4, the system bandwidth 410 as a frequency axis and 1 slot 420 as a time axis (one slot in the example of FIG. 4 is assumed to be 7 OFDM symbols, and the number of OFDM symbols included in one slot is not limited thereto (Control area # 1 401, control area # 2 402) are set in the control area # 1. The control regions 401 and 402 may be set to specific subbands 403 within the overall system bandwidth 410 on the frequency axis. The time axis may be set to one or a plurality of OFDM symbols and may be defined as a control resource duration (404). In the example of FIG. 4, the control region # 1 401 is set to a control region length of two symbols, and the control region # 2 402 is set to a control region length of one symbol.

The control region in the above-described 5G may be set by the base station through the upper layer signaling (e.g., System Information, Master Information Block (MIB), and Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling). Setting the control area to the UE means providing at least one of the control area position, the sub-band, the resource allocation of the control area, and the control area length. For example, the following information.

[Table 2]

In addition to the above setting information, various information necessary for transmitting the downlink control channel may be set in the UE, and some information of the information in Table 2 may be set in the UE. The information of Table 2 may be included in one message or transmitted, and some information of Table 2 may be included in at least one of SIB, MIB, and RRC.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a DMRS setting for a downlink control channel in a 5G wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In 5G, the control area can be set according to the following two methods.

[DMRS Setting # 1]

The control region is set to the DMRS setting # 1. This means that the DMRS to which the same precoding is applied for all the consecutive RBs in the control region is mapped and transmitted in all the REGs in the corresponding control region. This can be called WB-RS.

5, the control area 501 is set to the DMRS setting # 1 (502). The DMRS 503 may be transmitted in all the REGs 504 in the control region 501. At this time, the DMRS 503 can also be transmitted in the REG 504 in which the PDCCH 504 to be transmitted is not mapped. Also, all the transmitted DMRSs 503 can be subjected to the same precoding.

The terminal monitoring the control area 501 set to the DMRS setting # 1 502 is assumed to transmit the same precoding to the DMRS 503 in all the REGs 504 in the control area 501 Perform channel estimation on the control region 501, and perform blind decoding on the PDCCH 505 based on the estimated channel information.

[DMRS setting # 2]

The control region is set to the DMRS setting # 2, which means that the DMRS to which the same precoding is applied in the pre-set REG bundle unit is mapped and transmitted in the REG in which the PDCCH is actually transmitted. This can be called NB-RS.

5, the control area 506 is set to the DMRS setting # 2 (507). The DMRS 508 may be transmitted in the REG 509 in which the PDCCH 510 is actually transmitted within the control region 506. Therefore, the DMRS 511 actually transmitted and the DMRS 512 not transmitted may exist in the control region 506 depending on whether the PDCCH 510 is transmitted or not. Also, the same precoding can be applied to the transmitted DMRS 511 in the REG bundle. For example, in FIG. 5, when one transmission PDCCH 510 is composed of two REG bundles, REG bundle # 1 513 and REG bundle # 2 514, 511 may all be subjected to the same precoding and the same precoding may be applied to all of the DMRSs 511 transmitted in the REG bundle # 2 514. [ The size of the REG bundle may be set from the base station to the terminal as part of the control area 506 setting.

The UE monitoring the control area 506 set to the DMRS setting # 2 (507) can perform channel estimation on the assumption that the same precoding is applied in units of REG bundles and DMRS is transmitted, To perform blind decoding on the PDCCH 510. [

There may be a non-interleaving scheme and an interleaving scheme according to a resource mapping scheme (e.g., a CCE-to-REG mapping scheme) of a 5G downlink control channel. The non-interleaved mapping method refers to a mapping scheme in which a plurality of contiguous REGs constitute one CCE. The interleaving mapping scheme is a mapping scheme in which a plurality of non-contiguous REGs constitute one CCE It can mean. The preferred mapping scheme may be different depending on the transmission scheme of the DL control channel. For example, a transmit diversity transmission scheme may be used for the PDCCH to improve reception performance, and an interleaving mapping scheme may be applied to maximize frequency diversity. Alternatively, when terminal-specific beamforming is used for PDCCH transmission, a non-interleaved mapping scheme may be used to maximize the beamforming gain at a particular subband in which the PDCCH is transmitted.

In the following, a method of setting a bandwidth part considered in the 5G communication system will be described.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting for a bandwidth part in a 5G communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows an example in which the terminal bandwidth 600 is set to two bandwidth portions, that is, the bandwidth portion # 1 601 and the bandwidth portion # 2 602. The BS may set one or more bandwidth portions to the UE, and may set at least one of the following pieces of information for each bandwidth portion.

[Table 3]

In addition to the setting information, various parameters related to the bandwidth part may be set in the terminal. The information can be delivered to the terminal by the base station through higher layer signaling, e.g., RRC signaling. At least one bandwidth portion of the set one or more bandwidth portions may be activated. The activation of the set bandwidth part can be transferred from the base station to the mobile station via RRC signaling or dynamically through the MAC CE or DCI.

The setting of the bandwidth part supported by the 5G can be used for various purposes.

For example, when the bandwidth supported by the terminal is smaller than the system bandwidth, the bandwidth can be supported through the bandwidth partial configuration. For example, by setting the frequency position (setting information 2) of the bandwidth portion in the [Table 4] to the terminal, the terminal can transmit and receive data at a specific frequency position in the system bandwidth.

As another example, a base station can set a plurality of bandwidth parts to a terminal for the purpose of supporting different numerology. For example, to support both data transmission and reception using a subcarrier interval of 15 kHz and a subcarrier interval of 30 kHz for a certain terminal, the two bandwidth portions can be set to subcarrier intervals of 15 kHz and 30 kHz, respectively. The different bandwidth portions may be frequency division multiplexed, and when data is transmitted / received at specific subcarrier intervals, the bandwidth portion set at the corresponding subcarrier intervals may be activated.

As another example, a base station can set a bandwidth portion having a bandwidth of a different size to a terminal for the purpose of reducing power consumption of the terminal. For example, when the terminal supports a very large bandwidth, for example, 100 MHz bandwidth, and always transmits / receives data to / from the corresponding bandwidth, very high power consumption may be caused. In particular, monitoring of unnecessary downlink control channels with a large bandwidth of 100 MHz in the absence of traffic is very inefficient in view of power consumption. For the purpose of reducing the power consumption of the terminal, the base station can set a bandwidth part of a relatively small bandwidth, for example, a bandwidth part of 20 MHz, to the terminal. In the absence of traffic, the terminal can perform monitoring operation in the 20MHz bandwidth part, and when the data is generated, it can transmit / receive data in the 100MHz bandwidth part according to the instruction of the base station.

As described above, in the 5G, the DMRS for decoding the downlink control channel can be transmitted and can follow the DMRS setting # 1 or the DMRS setting # 2 according to the setting of the base station. The DMRS setting # 1 and the DMRS setting # 2 have different procoding assumptions, so that the UE can perform a different decoding operation according to each setting. On the other hand, in the 5G, one or a plurality of control areas can be set in the UE, and they can be allocated to overlap in the time and frequency resources. At this time, when different control regions having different DMRS settings overlap in time and frequency resources, it is necessary to decide how to perform transmission and reception of downlink control information to the overlapping region. In order to solve such a problem, the present invention proposes various embodiments. The embodiment of the present invention includes methods such as DMRS setting # 1 assumption in the overlapped area, rate matching for the control area set in the DMRS setting # 2, and skipping the monitoring for the specific control area.

In the 5G, one or a plurality of control areas can be set from the base station to the terminal. The type of search space to be monitored in each control area can be set from the base station to the terminal. That is, the terminal may be configured to monitor various types of common search space and terminal-specific search space from the base station. Embodiments of the present invention propose various embodiments corresponding to various setting methods for performing control area setting and monitoring for a search space.

≪ Embodiment 1 >

The base station can set one or a plurality of control regions to the UE, and when a plurality of control regions are set, they can overlap each other in time and frequency resources. Each control area may have different setting information, for example, the DMRS setting information may be different from each other. In the first embodiment of the present invention, when control regions having different DMRS configuration information are set to overlap in a specific time / frequency region, a method of transmitting and receiving a downlink control channel in an overlapping region of a base station and a terminal is proposed.

7 is a diagram showing an example according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 shows an example in which control areas having different DMRS settings are set to overlap in a specific time and frequency domain. 7, the control area # 1 (701) is set to the DMRS setting # 1. Therefore, in the control domain # 1 701, the DMRS 708 can be transmitted in all the REGs in the control region regardless of whether the PDCCH is transmitted or not, and all the same precoding can be transmitted. Control area # 2 702 is set to DMRS setting # 2. Therefore, in the control region # 2 702, the DMRS may be transmitted 706 in the REG in which the PDCCH is actually mapped in the control region, and the DMRS may not be transmitted in the other REGs 707. At this time, the transmitted DMRS 706 may be transmitted with the same precoding in units of REG bundles. In FIG. 7, the control area # 1 701 and the control area # 2 702 are set so as to overlap with each other, so that an overlapped area 703 may exist. The overlapped area 703 may or may not exist over time depending on the monitoring periods of the control area # 1 701 and the control area 702. [ For example, in FIG. 7, the monitoring period of the control region # 1 701 is set to the period # 1 704, and the monitoring period of the control region # 2 702 is set to the period # 2 705. Accordingly, in the slot # 0 and the slot # 4, an overlapped area 703 between the control area # 1 701 and the control area # 2 702 may exist. In the slot # 1, the slot # 2, The region 703 does not exist and only the control region # 2 702 can exist. That is, the presence or absence of overlapping regions can be varied according to the monitoring period for each control region, and when overlapping regions do not exist, PDCCH transmission and reception can be performed in each control region according to the existing setting.

When the overlapped region 703 exists, a method of transmitting the PDCCH can be performed, for example, in the following manner.

In describing the following methods, a control area set to DMRS setting # 1 is referred to as a "first control area", and a control area set to DMRS setting # 2 is referred to as a "second control area". Further, the first control region and the second control region are referred to as " overlapping region " As described above, the overlapped area may exist at a specific time or exist at all times according to the monitoring period of the first control area and the second control area (or the transmission period of the DMRS according to the DMRS setting # 1).

[Method 1]

When a base station transmits a PDCCH in the overlapped area, the base station can transmit a DMRS following the DMRS setting # 1 in the overlapped area. That is, the DMRS is transmitted in all the REGs existing in the overlapped region, and precoding identical to the precoding used in the first control region can be applied.

When the UE performs blind decoding on the PDCCH in the overlapped area, the UE can perform blind decoding on the assumption that the DMRS conforming to the DMRS setting # 1 is transmitted in the overlapped area.

More specifically, when performing the blind decoding on the first control region, the UE can perform the blind decoding for the entire control region without considering the overlapped region. On the other hand, when the UE performs blind decoding on the second control area, blind decoding can be performed assuming DMRS transmission following the DMRS setting # 1 in the overlapped area in the second control area, , It is possible to perform blind decoding on the assumption of DMRS setting # 2 in the area excluding the overlapped area.

[Method 2]

When the base station transmits the PDCCH in the overlapped area, the base station may transmit only the PDCCH compliant with the setting of the first control area in the overlapped area and not transmit the PDCCH compliant with the setting of the second control area. That is, the second control region can be rate-matched in the overlapped region. The base station can transmit the PDCCH that conforms to the setting of the second control region in the remaining region excluding the overlapping region in the second control region. There are two methods of rate matching the second control region in the overlapped region as follows.

<Method 2-1>

The base station can transmit the PDCCH to the remaining PDCCH candidates excluding the PDCCH candidate group in the search space existing in the overlapping region among the entire search spaces existing in the second control region. More specifically, the PDCCH candidate group set {Cand # 1, Cand # 2, Cand # 3, Cand # 4} # 2}, the base station can transmit the PDCCH only to the set {Cand # 3, Cand # 4} of the remaining PDCCH candidates.

<Method 2-2>

The search space is calculated again to the second control region excluding the overlapped region, and the PDCCH can be transmitted to the PDCCH candidate group existing in the newly calculated search space. More specifically, if the second control region is composed of a total of N CCEs and a total of M CCEs are present in the overlapped region, the base station calculates the search space again with the remaining (NM) CCEs excluding the overlapped region And the base station can transmit the PDCCH to the newly calculated search space.

When the UE monitors the PDCCH in the overlapped area, the UE can perform blind decoding on the entire search space of the first control area regardless of the overlapped area with respect to the first control area.

The terminal may perform blind decoding only on the remaining regions except for the overlapped region in the second control region after assuming that the second control region is rate matched in the overlapped region with respect to the second control region. At this time, the terminal can perform blind decoding after assuming a search space in the same manner as the method 2-1 and the method 2-2.

[Method 3]

If there is an overlapped area between the first control area and the second control area, the base station can also transmit the DMRS following the DMRS setting # 1 in the second control area. That is, the base station can also transmit the same precoding-applied DMRS in all REGs in the second control region. At this time, the same precoding can be applied to both the first control area and the second control area.

If there is an overlapped area between the first control area and the second control area, the UE can perform blind decoding on the assumption that the DMRS following the DMRS setting # 1 is also transmitted in the second control area. That is, it can be assumed that the same pre-coding is applied to all REGs in the second control region, and that the same precoding is applied to both the first control region and the second control region. Therefore, the UE can use all of the DMRSs existing in the first and second control regions at the time of channel estimation.

[Method 4]

If there is an overlapped area between the first control area and the second control area, the base station may not transmit the PDCCH to the second control area.

If there is an overlapped area between the first control area and the second control area, the terminal may not perform blind decoding for the second control area.

[Method 5]

The operation can be adjusted differently according to the setting information of the resource mapping of the first control area and the second control area.

For example, when both the first control area and the second control area are set as the interleaving mapping method and the overlapped area exists, [Method 1] or [Method 2] or [Method 3] or [Method 4 The BS and the MS can perform transmission and reception on the PDCCH in each control domain.

In another example, the first control area is set to the interleaving mode, the second control area is set to the non-interleaving mode, and when the overlapped area exists, [Method 2] or [Method 4] The base station and the mobile station can perform transmission and reception on the PDCCH in each control region.

Although the methods 1 to 5 have been described above, it is also possible to perform some of the methods 1 to 5 in combination.

In the above description, only two control areas are overlapped, but the same can be applied even when a plurality of control areas overlap each other.

&Lt; Example 1-1 >

In the 1-1th embodiment of the present invention, a method of notifying the terminal of the DMRS setting information for the control area is proposed by the base station.

(DMRS setting # 1 or DMRS setting # 2) for a control area to which DCI (Downlink Control Information) for scheduling RMSI (Remaining System Information) can be transmitted is called a Master Information Block (MIB) The base station can instruct the terminal through the base station. Here, the RMSI may correspond to essential system information (SI) except for the MIB transmitted from the PBCH (Physical Broadcast Channel), which may correspond to SIB1 and SIB2 in LTE, for example. Or the DMRS setting information of the control area in which the DCI scheduling the RMSI can be transmitted can be fixed to the DMRS setting # 1.

The DMRS setting information for the control region that can be set by RRC (Radio Resource Control) signaling can be notified to the UE by the RRC signaling. At this time, they may be set differently according to the resource mapping method of the control area. If the control area is set to the interleaving mapping method, it can be set to either DMRS setting # 1 or DMRS setting # 2. If the control area is set to non-interleaved mapping, it can always be fixed to DMRS setting # 2.

At least one of the following parameters may be additionally set when the BS sets the specific control region to the DMRS setting # 1.

- DMRS sequence following DMRS setting # 1

- Position or offset value in the REG of the DMRS following DMRS setting # 1

- Transmission cycle of DMRS according to DMRS setting # 1

- the slot index (or transmission occasion) at which the DMRS following DMRS setting # 1 is transmitted;

- Time interval for applying DMRS setting # 1

Although the first embodiment and the first embodiment are separately described above, the first embodiment and the first embodiment may be partially combined.

&Lt; Embodiment 2 >

In the second embodiment of the present invention, a method of setting a common search space and a common search space monitoring method of a terminal are proposed.

The base station and the terminal can transmit and receive the following common DCI format as a common search space.

The BS may transmit a DCI for scheduling a PDSCH for system information (SI), and the corresponding DCI format may be scrambled to an SI-RNTI. The BS may transmit the DCI format scrambled with the SI-RNTI to the MS through the common search space. The common search space to which the DCI format scrambled with the SI-RNTI is transmitted is referred to as &quot; common search space type 1 &quot;.

The BS may transmit a DCI for scheduling a PDSCH for RAR (Random Access Response) to the UE, and the corresponding DCI format may be scrambled to an RA-RNTI. The BS may transmit the DCI format scrambled with the RA-RNTI to the MS through the common search space. Quot; common search space type 2 &quot; in which the DCI format scrambled with the RA-RNTI is transmitted.

The BS may transmit a DCI for scheduling a PDSCH for paging to the UE, and the corresponding DCI format may be scrambled into a P-RNTI. The BS may transmit the DCI format scrambled with the P-RNTI to the MS through the common search space. The common search space to which the DCI format scrambled with the P-RNTI is transmitted is referred to as &quot; common search space type 3 &quot;.

The BS may transmit a specific DCI to the UE for the purpose of instructing pre-emption, and the corresponding DCI format may be scrambled with the INT-RNTI. The base station can transmit the DCI format scrambled with the INT-RNTI to the mobile station through the common search space. Let the common search space, to which the DCI format scrambled with INT-RNTI is transmitted, to be referred to as &quot; common search space type 4 &quot;.

The BS may transmit a DCI including a Slot Format Indicator (SFI) to the UE, and the DCI format may have a size scrambled with a specific RNTI or distinguished from other DCI formats. The base station can transmit the slot format indicator to the terminal through the common search space. The common search space to which the slot format indicator is transmitted is referred to as &quot; common search space type 5 &quot;.

Various methods of transmitting and receiving the common search space and the common DCI format described above will be described below.

[Method 1]

For a terminal before RRC connection, the base station may set a control area for monitoring the common search space type 1 through the MIB.

For the terminal before the RRC connection, the base station may set a control area for monitoring the common search space type 2 to the terminal through RMSI, more specifically, random access setting.

For the terminal before the RRC connection, the base station may set the control area for monitoring the common search space type 3 to the terminal through RMSI, more specifically, paging setting.

A control area for monitoring the common search space type 1, a control area for monitoring the common search space type 2, and a control area for monitoring the common search space type 3 may all be the same control area. That is, the control area set to the MIB and the control area set to the RMSI may correspond to the same control area. Here, the same control area may mean not only time and frequency resources, but also other setting information (for example, all or some of the setting information described in Table 2) are all the same.

In this case, the common search space type 1, the common search space type 2, and the common search space type 3 can all be defined as the same common search space. That is, the base station can transmit the DCI format set to SI-RNTI, RA-RNTI, and P-RNTI to the same common search space in the same control area. The UE can monitor and receive a common search space in the DCI format set to SI-RNTI, RA-RNTI, and P-RNTI.

Alternatively, common search space type 1, common search space type 2, and common search space type 3 can be defined as different common search spaces. For example, each common search space may be defined as a search space that is offset differently for each type. More specifically, the common search space type 1 can be set to the CCE index X in the control area, the common search space type 2 can set the CCE index Y in the control area to be the start point, and the common search space type 3 The CCE index Z in the control area can be set as a starting point. The CCE start index may be a fixed value predefined for each common search space type, or may be set through an MIB or an RMSI. The UE can receive and monitor the common search space type 1 DCI format scrambled with the SI-RNTI, and the DCI format scrambled with the RA-RNTI can receive and monitor the common search space type 2, and the P- The scrambled DCI format can be received by monitoring the common search space type 3.

There is an advantage that the set signaling overhead for an additional control area can be minimized by transmitting different types of common DCI formats in the same control area through the above method 1. Also, by transmitting the DCI formats in the same common search space, the number of blind decoding times of the terminal can be efficiently reduced.

[Method 2]

A control area for monitoring the common search space type 1, a control area for monitoring the common search space type 2, and a control area for monitoring the common search space type 3 may all correspond to different control areas for the terminal before the RRC connection . That is, it may mean that the control area set to the MIB and the control area set to the RMSI are set to different time and frequency resources, or that other setting information (e.g., all or some of the setting information described in Table 2) is different.

In this case, the common search space type 1, the common search space type 2, and the common search space type 3 can all be defined as the same common search space. It is defined as the same common search space, which means that the search space is defined to a fixed position defined in the control area. That is, the BS can transmit the DCI format scrambled with the SI-RNTI, the RA-RNTI, and the P-RNTI to the common search space defined in the same rule in the set control area. The UE can monitor and receive the DCI format scrambled with each RNTI in a common search space defined in each control area set for each common search space type. If the control area set to the MIB and the control area set to the RMSI are the same, the search space naturally becomes the same.

Alternatively, common search space type 1, common search space type 2, and common search space type 3 can be defined as different common search spaces. For example, each common search space may be defined as a search space that is offset differently for each type. The UE may monitor and receive the common search space type 1 in the control domain set to the MIB, and the DCI format scrambled with the RA-RNTI may receive the common search space type 2 in the control domain set to the RMSI And the DCI format scrambled with the P-RNTI can receive and monitor the common search space type 3 in the control region set to the RMSI.

The base station can be more flexibly operated in transmitting the common DCI through the method 2. For example, when there are a large number of terminals existing in the initial access stage in the system, the system can be operated so that initial accesses of terminals can be performed smoothly by offloading to a specific sub-bandwidth within the system bandwidth.

[Method 3]

For the RRC connected terminal, the base station can set the control region by RRC signaling to the terminal. In addition, the BS can set the type of the search space to be monitored in the corresponding control area. The common search space type 1, the common search space type 2, the common search space type 3, the common search space type 4, and the common search space type 5 described above) for the specific control area, A specific search space can be set or both the common search space and the terminal-specific search space can be set.

The BS may set a specific control region through RRC signaling to the MS and set a common search space type to be monitored in the corresponding control region. At this time, the control area and the common search space set in the RRC can be set separately from the control area set in the MIB or RMSI in the initial access step described in [Method 1] and [Method 2]. In this case, the UE does not monitor the common search space in the control area (the control area set by the MIB or the RMSI) set in the initial access step (before the RRC connection), and the common search space of the control area set in the RRC signaling from the base station Can be monitored.

More specifically, it is as follows.

Before the RRC connection, the base station can set the control area A for monitoring the common search space type X through the MIB or RMSI to the mobile station. After the RRC connection, the base station can set the control area B for monitoring the common search space type X by RRC signaling to the mobile station. If the control area A and the control area B are different from each other, the terminal can monitor the common search space type X in the control area B, which is newly set to the RRC, without further monitoring the common search space type X in the control area A. That is, the terminal may be configured to monitor the common search space type X by the RRC.

[Method 4]

The base station can set one or more bandwidth portions to the terminal. The base station can set at least one basic bandwidth portion (or equally default bandwidth portion, primary bandwidth portion) to the terminal, and the basic bandwidth portion can be used for the purpose of fallback operation of the terminal. For example, the terminal can receive the bandwidth part # 1 and the bandwidth part # 2 from the base station, and the bandwidth part # 1 can be set as the basic bandwidth part. The UE can perform transmission and reception in the bandwidth part # 2 by activating the bandwidth part # 2 according to the instruction of the base station. If the UE does not receive any additional DCI after a predetermined time, the bandwidth part # 1 And perform transmission and reception in the bandwidth portion # 1.

The base station can set a control region for each bandwidth portion to the terminal. Further, the common search space or the terminal-specific search space can be set for the set control area.

The base station can set up at least one UE-specific search space for each bandwidth part set in the UE. That is, when one or a plurality of control regions are set in each bandwidth portion, at least one control region can be set to include the terminal-specific search space. That is, the terminal can monitor at least one UE-specific search space in all bandwidth portions.

The base station may set at least one common search space for each bandwidth part set in the terminal or may set the common search space to exist only in a specific bandwidth part. Which may differ depending on the common search space type.

For example, the common search space type 1, the common search space type 2, and the common search space type 3 described above can be set to exist in a specific bandwidth part (for example, the basic bandwidth part) among the bandwidth parts set for the terminal. That is, the terminal can monitor the common search space type 1, the common search space type 2, and the common search space type 3 in a specific bandwidth portion. This is because the common search space type 1 (for system information reception purpose), the common search space type 2 (for random access), and the common search space type 3 (for paging use) are not intended for the terminal to transmit and receive downlink / Since it is a common search space in which the downlink control information having a purpose for another purpose is transmitted, it may be preferable to set it in a specific bandwidth portion, since it may be inefficient to set the entire bandwidth portion set in the terminal.

For example, the common search space type 4 and the common search space type 5 described above can be set to exist in all the bandwidth portions set for the terminal. That is, the terminal can monitor the common search space type 4 and the common search space type 5 in all the bandwidth portions set. The common search space type 4 (pre-emption indication type) and the common search space type 5 (slot format indication use) correspond to a common search space in which an indicator required for the terminal to transmit / receive downlink / uplink data can be transmitted Therefore, it may be desirable to set all the bandwidth portions.

[Method 5]

The BS may set up at least one common search space for each primary cell or the secondary cell set in the MS, or may set the common search space to exist only in the primary cell. Which may differ depending on the common search space type.

For example, the common search space type 1, the common search space type 2, and the common search space type 3 described above can be set to exist only in the primary cell set in the terminal. That is, the UE can monitor the common search space type 1, the common search space type 2, and the common search space type 3 in the primary cell. This is because the common search space type 1 (for system information reception purpose), the common search space type 2 (for random access), and the common search space type 3 (for paging use) are not intended for the terminal to transmit and receive downlink / Since it is a common search space in which downlink control information having a purpose for another purpose is transmitted, it may be desirable to set the terminal to monitor only in the primary cell.

For example, the common search space type 4 and the common search space type 5 described above can be set to exist in the secondary cell as well as the primary cell set in the terminal. That is, the UE can monitor the common search space type 4 and the common search space type 5 in all configured primary and secondary cells. The common search space type 4 (pre-emption indication type) and the common search space type 5 (slot format indication use) correspond to a common search space in which an indicator required for the terminal to transmit / receive downlink / uplink data can be transmitted Therefore, it may be desirable to set all primary cells and secondary cells.

The method 1, the method 2, the method 3, the method 4, and the method 5 have been described. However, it is also possible to combine some of the methods of the method 1, the method 2, the method 3, the method 4 or the method 5.

Although the first and second embodiments have been described above for the sake of convenience, some of the operations of the first and second embodiments may be combined.

In order to perform the above-described embodiments of the present invention, the transmitter, receiver and control unit of the terminal and the base station are shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, respectively. In the 5G communication system according to the present embodiment, a method of transmitting and receiving a base station and a terminal for applying a method of transmitting and receiving a downlink control channel and a data channel is shown. In order to do so, a base station and a transmitter, It should be operated according to the embodiment.

8 is a block diagram illustrating a structure of a UE according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 8, the terminal of the present invention may include a terminal processing unit 801, a receiving unit 802, and a transmitting unit 803.

The terminal processing unit 801 can control a series of processes in which the terminal can operate according to the embodiment of the present invention described above. For example, the downlink control channel blind decoding method and the RLM measurement method according to the embodiment of the present invention can be controlled differently. The terminal receiving unit 802 and the terminal may be collectively referred to as a transmitting unit 803 in the embodiment of the present invention. The transmitting and receiving unit can transmit and receive signals to and from the base station. The signal may include control information and data. To this end, the transmitting and receiving unit may include an RF transmitter for up-converting and amplifying the frequency of a transmitted signal, an RF receiver for low-noise amplifying the received signal and down-converting the frequency. The transceiving unit may receive a signal through a wireless channel, output the signal to the terminal processing unit 801, and transmit the signal output from the terminal processing unit 801 through a wireless channel. The processing unit 801 can control the transmitting / receiving unit. The processing unit may include at least one processor and may be referred to as a controller.

The terminal processor 801 receives first control area setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for the first control area from the base station, and receives a second DMRS Wherein the first control area and the second control area overlap the first control area and the second control area based on the first control area setting information and the second control area setting information, And to receive the DMRS based on the first DMRS setting information in the first control region including the third control region. It can be assumed that the DMRS based on the second DMRS setting information is not allocated to the second control region including the third control region when decoding the second control region. The first DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS in the entire band of the first control zone and the second DMRS setting information may be a setting for transmitting the DMRS only in the zone in which the control information is transmitted in the second control zone . In addition, the terminal processing unit 801 performs blind decoding based on the DMRS according to the first DMRS setting information in the first control region including the third control region, 2 control region based on the DMRS according to the second DMRS setting information.

9 is a block diagram showing the structure of a base station according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 9, the base station of the present invention may include a base station processing unit 901, a receiving unit 902, and a transmitting unit 903.

The base station processing unit 901 can control a series of processes so that the base station can operate according to the above-described embodiment of the present invention. For example, the downlink control channel, the DMRS transmission and setting method, the RLM-RS setting, and the threshold setting method according to the embodiment of the present invention can be controlled differently. The base station receiving unit 902 and the base station transmitting unit 903 may be collectively referred to as a transmitting / receiving unit in the embodiment of the present invention. The transmitting and receiving unit can transmit and receive signals to and from the terminal. The signal may include control information and data. To this end, the transmitting and receiving unit may include an RF transmitter for up-converting and amplifying the frequency of a transmitted signal, an RF receiver for low-noise amplifying the received signal and down-converting the frequency. In addition, the transceiver may receive a signal through a wireless channel, output the signal to the base station processing unit 901, and transmit the signal output from the base station processing unit 901 through a wireless channel. The processing unit 901 can control the transmitting / receiving unit. The processing unit 901 may include at least one processor and may be referred to as a controller.

The base station processor 901 transmits first control area setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for the first control area and second DMRS setting information for the second control area And a third control area in which the first control area and the second control area are overlapped with each other and transmits the second DMRS setting information in the first control area including the third control area, To control the transmission of the DMRS. Also, the base station processing unit 901 may control not to allocate the DMRS based on the second DMRS setting information to the second control region including the third control region. In addition, the base station processing unit 901 transmits control information to which the same precoding as the DMRS according to the first DMRS setting information is applied in the first control region including the third control region, Control information to which the same precoding is applied as the DMRS according to the second DMRS setting information in the second control region except for the first DMRS setting information. The first DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS in the entire control band, and the second DMRS setting information may be a setting for transmitting the DMRS only in a region in which the control information is transmitted in the second control region .

It should be noted that the embodiments of the present invention disclosed in the present specification and drawings are only illustrative of the present invention in order to facilitate the understanding of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. That is, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other modifications based on the technical idea of the present invention are possible. Further, each of the above embodiments can be combined with each other as needed.

Claims (15)

1. A method of operating a base station,

   Transmitting first control area setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for a first control area;

   Transmitting second control area setting information including second DMRS setting information for a second control area;

   Confirming a third control area where the first control area overlaps with the second control area; And

   And transmitting the DMRS based on the first DMRS configuration information in a first control region including the third control region.
2. The method according to claim 1,

   And does not allocate a DMRS based on the second DMRS configuration information to a second control zone including the third control zone.
3. The method according to claim 1,

   Transmitting control information to which the same precoding as the DMRS according to the first DMRS setting information is applied in the first control region including the third control region,

   The control information to which the same precoding as the DMRS according to the second DMRS setting information is applied is transmitted in the second control region excluding the third control region.
4. The method according to claim 1,

   The first DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS in the entire band of the first control region,

   Wherein the second DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS only in a region of the second control region where control information is transmitted.
5. A method of operating a terminal,

   Receiving first control region setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for a first control region from a base station;

   Receiving second control area setting information including second DMRS setting information for the second control area from the base station;

   Confirming a third control area where the first control area overlaps with the second control area based on the first control area setting information and the second control area setting information; And

   And receiving a DMRS based on the first DMRS configuration information in a first control region including the third control region.
6. 6. The method of claim 5,

   And a DMRS based on the second DMRS configuration information is not allocated to a second control zone including the third control zone when decoding the second control zone.
7. 6. The method of claim 5,

   Performing blind decoding based on the DMRS according to the first DMRS setting information in the first control region including the third control region; And

   And performing blind decoding based on the DMRS according to the second DMRS setup information in the second control region except for the third control region.
8. 6. The method of claim 5,

   The first DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS in the entire band of the first control region,

   Wherein the second DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS only in a region of the second control region where control information is transmitted.
9. In the base station,

   A transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving signals; And

   The first control area setting information including the first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for the first control area and the second control area setting information including the second DMRS setting information for the second control area A third control area in which the first control area overlaps with the second control area, and transmits a DMRS based on the first DMRS setting information in a first control area including the third control area The base station comprising:
10. 10. The method of claim 9,

    And does not allocate a DMRS based on the second DMRS configuration information to a second control zone including the third control zone.
11. 10. The method of claim 9,

    Transmitting control information to which the same precoding as the DMRS according to the first DMRS setting information is applied in the first control region including the third control region,

    And transmits the same precoding-applied control information as the DMRS according to the second DMRS configuration information in the second control zone except for the third control zone.
12. 10. The method of claim 9,

    The first DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS in the entire band of the first control region,

    Wherein the second DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS only in a region of the second control region where control information is transmitted.
13. In the terminal,

    A transmitting and receiving unit for transmitting and receiving signals; And

    Receiving a first control area setting information including first DMRS (demodulation reference signal) setting information for a first control area from a base station, receiving second control area setting information including a second DMRS setting information for the second control area from the base station, And a third control area overlapping the first control area and the second control area based on the first control area setting information and the second control area setting information, And controlling the DMRS to be received based on the first DMRS setting information in a first control region including a control region.
14. 14. The method of claim 13,

    It is assumed that a DMRS based on the second DMRS setting information is not allocated to a second control region including the third control region when decoding the second control region,

    The first DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS in all bands of the first control region,

    Wherein the second DMRS setting information is a setting for transmitting the DMRS only in a region of the second control region where control information is transmitted.
15. 14. The apparatus of claim 13,

    Performs blind decoding on the basis of the DMRS according to the first DMRS setting information in the first control area including the third control area and performs blind decoding on the second DMRS setting in the second control area except for the third control area And performs blind decoding based on the information-dependent DMRS.

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